Activists are calling on Keir Starmer to back ambitious political reform, following a key Labour report Leading Labour figures and democracy campaigners have urged the Labour party to get behind major political reform, following the launch of a new party-commissioned roadmap for constitutional change. Posted 05 Feb 2021
ERS in the Press – January 2021 As a new year begins, but the effects of the national lockdown continue, democratic issues continue to make the headlines – as we’ve kicked off the new year continuing our calls for fairer votes and... Posted 03 Feb 2021
Trump shows how First Past the Post gives the keys to extremists As the moving vans deliver the next residents of the White House into their new home, it is worth looking back on how America’s First Past the Post style political system aided Trump’s rise to... Posted 20 Jan 2021
Five times the ERS set the news agenda in 2020 Despite the difficulties of 2020, the ERS kept up the pressure and make the case for political reform in a crowded news cycle. From promoting our key campaigns through our analysis of the 2019 election... Posted 13 Jan 2021
A small change has the potential to make a big difference to Australian elections In 1918, a seemingly ordinary by-election in the Australian electoral division of Swan changed Australian federal politics forever. The conservatives left Labor in the dust with almost double the vote. Unfortunately for them, there were... Posted 08 Jan 2021
How close was Trump to winning the election? Just before the 2020 US Presidential election, we asked the question ‘could Trump win the Presidency and lose the popular vote again’? Now that results from every state have been certified and the Electoral College... Posted 05 Jan 2021
Labour MPs call on party in Westminster to back electoral reform after Wales’ Senedd backs change Labour MPs from across the party have called on the leadership to back reform to Westminster’s ‘broken voting system’ after the Labour-led administration in Cardiff passed legislation introducing STV for local government elections across Wales.... Posted 20 Dec 2020
Top 10 must-read stories from the Electoral Reform Society in 2020 The pandemic has cast its shadow over everything this year – and issues of democracy are no exception. We’ve seen the effects of a super-centralised political system, leading to clashes between the nations and regions... Posted 18 Dec 2020
Shock Parliamentary survey results highlights calls for electoral reform By Akash Thiara, a Placement Student with the Electoral Reform Society from the University of Nottingham. A survey conducted by the House of Commons’ Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee (PACAC) asked people what... Posted 15 Dec 2020
YouGov study reveals the stark levels of discontent with Westminster By Akash Thiara, a Placement Student with the Electoral Reform Society from the University of Nottingham. Last week, polling firm YouGov released a wide-ranging study on democracy and its perception amongst Britons – and it... Posted 11 Dec 2020